The Executive committee of the Centralized religious organization of the Spiritual management of Moslems of Adygeya Republic and Krasnodar Territory has published today, on November, 29th, in the republican newspaper "Soviet Adygeya" its statement, IА REGNUM correspondent informed. The statement, as it was also spoken in it, is directed against reasonings of the doctor of historical degree Murat Bedjanov (published in the same newspaper) concerned the condition, in his opinion, Islam exists now in Adygeya. In particular, the statement connected to the article "Having rejected Wahhabism, we keep our lives" ("Soviet Adygeya", November, 19th).

In his article doctor Bedjanov wrote that he "started to be engaged in the religious affairs by the will of destiny when began to supervise the religious faiths at the government of Adygeya Republic. Owing to his post, with a group of believers he made hajj to Mecca, received a hajji dignity". Then he noted: "being flesh from flesh a Moslem, I adhere to traditional Islam".

As Wahhabists the author of the article considered an Adyg from Syria Faiz Autlev, who during several years lived in the republic, and Nadjmuddin Abaze, refugee from Kosovo and until recent time - imam of the mosque of Adygeysk town. Attributes of Wahhabism, in his opinion, were that Abaze told the parishioners about non-commitment of being at funeral in headdress (by the norms Adyghe Khabze it is necessary to be in a headdress), about necessity to hold mourning to relatives during three days (and by Adyghe Khabze – the mourning term is much longer), that Abaze opposed farewell speeches at funeral, was against the seven-day every-evening, and forty day every-Friday batches schalum (Adygeyan flat cakes), and so on. On the basis of the aforesaid, the hajji warned: "Wahhabism inherently opposes positions of Koran; it is against Moslems and people of other beliefs who do not agree to recognize it. Wahhabism is always ready to declare them "the Sacred" war".

In the reciprocal word of the Spiritual management of Moslems of Adygeya Republic and Krasnodar Territory, in particular, it was spoken that recently they were observing "the tendency to the certain polarization of believers with prevailing among a part of them some propensity to religious nihilism, simplified faith consideration, and artificial mixing of ethno-ethical standards with confessional ones…”

The doctor of historical degree M. B. Bedjanov, whose feather a number of publications on religious subject belonged, appealed to such group of people (who were simplifying observing traditional norms of Islam), too. The basic idea of his reasonings and claims is reduced to mixture of the religious conception with the ethno-ethical standards of Adyghe Khabze, in other words, the whole Islamic dogma was emasculated up to "correctness" of carrying out of the funeral ceremony. As a result we have a sad example when ignorance of the subject, misunderstanding of terminological, methodological and other nuances of the issue are supplemented with sticking of frightening labels "Wahhabist" and "Wahhabism".

Note: the plenipotentiary of the president of Russian Federation in the Southern federal district Dmitry Kozak in the beginning of November had acted against any legislative interdiction of Wahhabism. As he said, Wahhabism as a religious current in Islam was founded 200 years ago and has no any connections with extremism. It is the state religion of Saudi Arabia, the country with which Russia has diplomatic relations. "And some of us have taken this religious current as a flag of extremist and terrorist forces. Unfortunately, that’s just the way it is", - declared Kozak at the press conference in Rostov-on-Don.

In Adygeya, apparently, the term is used not by extremists or terrorists but by "the mightiest men of the world" in their struggle “for a place under the sun”.